Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Gooner has coined the phrase below - the Phil U Bill.Well another phrase would be - the Phil U Test.Because I get the gut feeling that Paula Bennetts so called welfare reforms will turn out to be mostly academic.

The DPB is a lifestyle choice for many people, so the Phil U Test will be to see what he actually is doing in a year or even two from now.My bet is nothing different, for him and countless others.Apart from popping out more babies to ensure they always have one under 6.

I know several people from South Korea and they all tell me the same thing.After the war they had two options.Work or starve.The fact that they are alive and rich tells you something.

I will be happy if that is the case Adolf but I won't be holding my breath.My biggest concern is not so much with idiots like Phil U but the thousnads of women who will continue to have babies to ensure that they always have a child under 6. Bennett sounded very unconvincing on radio last night saying that this wouldn't happen.

It is human nature to take full advantage of any niche. And governments are experts at creating niches.

China has no welfare and no income tax. That is why it has GDP growth per annum of 8-12%, year on year. They work, and they work bloody hard. Families support each other, and they are industrious. They also have no debt, are not allowed credit cards and hold trillions in foreign reserves.

Meanwhile, the West drowns in debt, suffocates in welfare and trade unions and has a ridiculously high divorce rate and family breakdown.

Yeah, I wish we got to live in an authoritarian police state run by the Communist Party, that would be so much cooler than what we have now. Are you really recommending China as a model for us, Gooner?

China does, in fact, have income tax (it is progessive and raises about 500 billion dollars a year in government revenue) and a welfare system (state owned unemployment insurance, communal pensions etc). Got any more?